Call: Materials
for clean air

Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme with nearly 80
billion € of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020). Apart from classic research projects, Horizon 2020 also funds
innovation projects and pilot-projects in different fields.

Horizon Prizes are challenge prizes (also known as 'inducement' prizes) which offer a cash reward to whoever can
most effectively meet a defined challenge. They act as an incentive for innovation. They prescribe the goal but not who the
innovator should be or how the goal should be achieved.

Call

Materials for clean air

Description of call"Materials
for clean air"

The Horizon Prize on materials for clean air will be awarded to the
most affordable, sustainable and innovative design-driven material solution that can reduce the concentration of particulate
matter in urban areas.

Particulate matter (PM) is the air pollutant which has the most severe impact
on health.

Currently, around 90% of the population of European cities for which PM data exist is exposed to levels
exceeding WHO air quality guidelines levels.

Average life expectancy in the European Union is estimated to be 8.6 months
lower due to exposure to particulate matter resulting from human activities. The inhalation of particulate matter can lead
to asthma, lung cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, birth defects, and premature death.

In addition to
its impact on human health, particulate matter can also have adverse effects on climate change and ecosystems.

The
contest will be open to any single person and legal entity or group of legal entities established in EU Member States or countries
associated to Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation programme.